What union? We are non union and intend to stay that way. And if it really bothers us, we can get ear protection if we want. But if you have actually BEEN in a computer room, you'd realize it ain't that bad. I have been working in one for 5 years and I hear just about as good as I did before I started to work there. Maybe way back when the computers actually made more noise then current pc's do, well, then you'd have a case. Current PC's and servers don't make enough noise to be heard over the air conditioners and everything else going on. Handling tapes with ear protection? No way. Then I would never hear the console attention beep. I believe sight loss is actually worse then any hearing loss. We IT folks stare at CRT's way too much. LCD's will be a godsend!
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Doesn't look like a Jog wheel to me. Looks more like a directional pad.
Pay for a pro to do it and you can't go wrong. You have no idea what future requirements might be, but they might. You see some servers like IBM's big Regatta p690 have to have raised floor and certain load ratings, heigth and other specs on that raised floor that have to be satisfied before IBM will support them.
IBM Global Services can do this and Bruns-Pak is a company who has their stuff together. They did a seminar I attended on Fault Tolerant centers...centers designed to withstand a category 5 hurricane with out power, water, and even food and sleeping quarters being supplied to the staffers during the whole event. Alot of companies forget that Operations Staff and Sysadmins need food while taking care of an emergency especially one that lasts for several days.
They can build you a center that costs 1 dollar per square foot (no raised floor, basically a room) or X amount (too high) with all of the robustness of NORAD's Crystal Palace. It all depends on what you want/need.
If I were to plan one for our location, I would build a one floor facility with no windows, chiller's in a protected area (inside the building, not on the roof), generators in a protected area, UPS, nice and high raised floor, possibly a tall ceiling (I hear that the new standard ceiling height is 40 feet....for taller racks), the building should be hardened against the weather in your area.....meaning it should be very tough in Ohio so it could withstand a Tornado. Ohio doesn't get very many cat 5 hurricanes so we don't have to go that far. Also, have a operations center so your operators don't have to be in the room. This saves sanity for mthe rush of the AC/units. Have a BATHROOM not far from the center....preferably connected to it. You could make it a locker room so that if you have a multi day emergency, you could shower. Have food (at least vending machines or maybe an emergency box of food with food that can stand to sit on a shelf for a while (MRE's would work). Also, you need a coffee pot (GREAT for LONG NIGHTS!). Also, get cable trays for managing the cat5, cat6 or fiber. They are for more then making things neet, they also protect the cable from and errant floor tile landing on a fiber and crushing it, or from cutting a patch cable. That's just the things I could think of. The pro's will not forget anything. It's what they do. Don't just pay those pro's to implement YOUR design....have them do the design with you. It's not the big thing's you will miss when doing a computer room. It's the little things that turn out to be big things too that you miss. This is why I say GET A PRO!
New units are much more quite then the older units. I have a printer that's louder. We're a state institution and we have a staffed computer room 24/7 almost. Since we are state, we KNOW about OSHA and they have yet to say anything. A well designed center can mitigate things like chiller sounds and the like.
You said: need to know how to handle your girlfriend, ask Ann Landers.
Yeah but she's dead! Died last week.
Give CmdrTaco and crew a break. Besides, if there really was something interesting happening (there was, it got rejected from several submittors.....Gene Kan of Gnutella fame committed suicide) they still might post this stuff and the good stuff if they feel nice.
No I have a BEFW11S4 V.2. I can't have it build a list of the MAC adress's that come in via wireless, but I can restrict the network to only those MAC adress's that are using it or any MAC I know will use it.(only my laptop and PDA) Nothing about that is automatic...you have to type them in. So only 2 devices can use my AP. I also restrict things some by setting the number of people allowed to get a DHCP address too I usually only issue 3 adress's, but currently 4 because of some idiot problem I had...I can probably fix it with time, but lately my RR has had problems staying up, so I have not had the time. A tech is on the way tomorrow to check things out cable modem wise, although today it's been up all day. Strange. Maybe they found their problem. I didn't get the WAP11 cuz I wanted/needed the switch and NAT stuff. My next purchase wireless wise may be one of the Linksys wireless print servers so I can get some space on my desk, although that may not work as I use the card slots on my printer constantly. I would not mind having one though!;) You may want to check the Linksys website and see if the have any updates, but May sounds like a recent flash (mine also came out in May). I love the fact that they are adding features with flash as I don't find many bugs unless you count the router rebooting when the Cable modem is down and trying to communicate with the provider...when it's down for a extended period I usually yank the power or wan cable for the cable modem.
Just like I told my wife....NEVER TELL TW Service ANYTHING! I have a simple setup. Cable Modem to Linksys Wireless AP/Switch, Cable from desktop hooked to the Linksys, and wireless for both Laptop and PDA. I tell her if they ever ask about more then one computer, tell them we only have one. If they ever ask about a router or something like that, tell them you don't know or we don't have it. Our AUP does not forbade it, but they don't support it and telling them something like this will get service to hang up on you quicker then a web page download on roadrunner. I have a mental list when I KNOW it's their problem, but I want them to investigate. Basically, to get past Tier 1 support, I bluff my way and tell them I already did that. If they tell me to do it again, I ask for a manager. That usually gets me to Tier 2 support where they finally realize it's their problem, not mine. Lately, I have actually gotten good help from the phone techs. I tell them everything I tried (some of I did some of I didn't cuz I knew it would not help) and they moved it up to tier 2 then tier 3. Now I have a guy coming to look at the modem. My bet is they'll swap modems out. In any case, NEVER tell Road Runner support anything. As far as I am concerned, how many PC's I have is not their damn business especially if I am not coming anywhere near any cap.
This is what I do. Personally, I think freeloaders suck. Leechs would kill BBS's back in the day. That's why one friend of mine who ran a bbs kept acess to the the good stuff closed to all but those with higher access (his friends).
Those who are willing to be WALKED ALL OVER by freeloaders are those who advocate a free internet and free wireless. They want to give access to the internet to people who care less about it and more about getting food! But since they don't charge anyone, then the one's who CAN afford it figure oh I will just leech off of my neighbor's open connection. And then they tell their neihbor and so on and so on and then that Cable Modem's connection is saturated 24/7 and they wonder why the cable company did what they did. SHEESH!
I don't share my wireless network with anyone. I have it on my laptop and my pda (The awesome despite some performance issues e740) and I have my AP set up thanks to Linksys's update to only allow those two to connect via WEP and MAC address. So if they tried to connect to it, they will see it, but they will also not be able to connect. That is unless the Cable Guy is a hacker too, which I doubt (what hacker would want to do that job!). Besides, don't those freaks who share it know that they risk their own systems by running it unencrypted and unrestricted?? Also, they lose the ability to do cool stuff like acess your desktop data amd hardware from PDA or Laptop(if they turn on sharing, anyone can see their stuff...stupid move). They also can't share printers like I do with my laptop!;)
You actually buy your groceries online? Heh heh. Actually, I like Discover Card over Visa for online purchases. Discover has an app for your machine (windows only unfortunately) that let's you generate a one time use number for every purchase on the net hopefuly preventing unauthorized charges by the script kiddies. I will never use my Visa online with or without passport...it's too risky. Brings to memory the Gatekeeper software thing in the movie The Net. Now I need to go to the bathroom cuz I just got that image of Sandra Bullock in a bikini....rarrr rarrr!
The World is so small now. In less then a day I can be on the other side of the world. Would it not be so much easier if we all kept time by following UTC? I flew to Dallas a couple weeks ago. They are one hour behind EDT. I told my friends I was kind of time traveling. Because of the change from one timezone to another, if you looked at my departure and arrival times you'd think it was a 2 hour flight even though it took about 3 hours. Granted, the only people who would feel normal are the folks in the UK. When the sun would rise here in the Eastern Time Zone, it would already be 10 am by UTC. It would feel too weird to alot of people.
THANK YOU! Exactly my point. I do believe it SHOULD be better, but there are SO many new things in the Toshiba e740 that it just was not possible to get everything right software wise. The Xscale, the imageon, the integrated wireless all make for one really really small and very complex device. The firmware is BOUND to have problems. This much should be a given. All things said, I have yet to see the people's problems with things like wireless (been pretty flwaless here), and video. There are annoying things like the buttons taking a vacation after using the wireless sometimes, a weird block in the messenger program command bar, weirdness with the notes app when storing notes on the SD card instead of memory, the ANNOYING "feature" of enabling the radio when doing a soft reset (I WANT TO LEAVE IT OFF IF IT WAS OFF DAMMIT!) and others. I have only had it for a week so it's hard to say if that's all the bugs, but those are the ones I notice. Personally, for a desktop, I would rather have a 450 MHz SPARC or RS/6000 instead of what I have. At least both Sun and IBM run more QA stuff then the PC manufacturers do! That 450 Mhz risc machine would run rings around any PC I could get (with exception of a Itanium, properly configured...). RISC machines are proof that doubling MHz will not necessarily double performance.
For what you want, you'd be MUCH better off with a SAN and some sort of silo. DVD's have a tendency to grow feet. Security wise, I'd never do a DVD jukebox. It's too easy for stuff to go bye bye. The san can be backed up by a IBM silo running Tivoli or a StorageTek unit or something similar. For those who say that tape technology has not kept up, you can tell they are PC centric and never look beyond it. I have Magstar tapes that are 7 gigs uncompressed and a library that holds tons of them (around 100-200 at least...if not more). Also, I would rather not have 2 TB tapes. Too easy for you to loose something if it's only on one tape (of course you could backup multiple times, but your goig to do that anyway right?). The nice thing about the IBM/Tivoli units is when you run out of space, you can just get another silo, and more SAN. Your existing Tivoli server can still be used to back things up. Some say well, tapes have legs too....yeah, but it's MUCH harder for someone to swipe one if the door's locked and it's in a card accessed data center. I know the DVD jukes could be locked too, but it's much more tempting to try to steal something more commonly available. How easy is it to find a Magstar tape drive that a home user/hacker could afford?? DVD Juke's are not that great of a idea. I can't guarantee reliablity or data retrieval on a DVD. On a SAN I more readily can do this(and the SAN would be much faster to boot!). And if the data doesn't change, you can always have the users mount the drives in a read only status. Then they can't over write the files.
For a category that has NEW silicon running it! Driver problems can create lots of issues. The imageon 100 graphics processor they are using in the Toshiba is brand new. My point is are we expecting too much out of a device that oculd have been rushed? I mean how fast do you need your contact list to come up?? As long as it plays MP3's fine, it works good for me. Also, this is nothing like a x86 chip. I t has all kinds of optimizations for power concerns and is also a RISC processor I believe. It's too soon to create any verdict on the Xscale. There's only ONE model out now (in the US....Japan has the really cool new Genio model that won't be here for a while). Also, HP iPaqs are due out soon as well. Palm is also going to Xscale too. The Xscale is a god processor, it's just too soon to issue sucks/doesn't suck verdict on it right now. Personaly, I like my e740 very much and owuld NEVER step DOWN to an iPaq. Besides I hate them sleds anyway (why can't they include a CF sled instead of the usless basic sled).
Terrible? It beats the iPaq in every area except for memory moves, and graphics. Memory moves are not that much slower either. Are we quibbling about mere microseconds?? I believe the problem could be the OS but may be more likely to be with the ATI chip. Rumor has it the driver has not truely been released yet.
This complaint was also based on the FIRST Xscale pda to EVER be released. Sure there's GOING to be problems. The iPaq started off with similar issues, but you don't hear anyone talking about it now do ya? There's alot of reasons that add up to create the total performance picture. Maybe Toshiba used cheaper internal ram? Maybe they need more memory for video (I think it has like 256 K maybe?? I don't know but I know it has dedicated video ram). The point is the performance on ONE Xscale based PocketPC does not make a prediction on how the others will perform. Also as these are flashable, we can expect even the Toshiba to get better performance as flash updates are made available.
Screw you man! I don't want them any bigger. Sure a nice big screen would be nice, but in something that's supposed to fit in your pocket, then the current specs work. The only way I would want a bigger screen would be if it was virtual (project on your wall, eye, whatever....). Now I WOULD like a 15 inch wireless web pad for at home. But I guess that'll wait for the mira. Also, that clie with twice the real estate is a heck of a lot bigger too. I like the 240x320, although I would not mind more pixels per inch. That would make things much sharper and clearer.
Well I found it and the performance is NOT 50-75 percent slower then an iPaq. From the numbers on pocketnow.com, the Toshiba e740 is actually ahead in most categories with exception of graphics. There's the real kicker. I don't think it's the Xscale so much as it's the ATI imageon graphics chip in it. This is also a new chip, and as the benchmarks prove, it's driver has a problem or so it would seem. I actually heard that it's kind of operating in a emulation mode of sorts (kind of like standard SVGA on a desktop). ATI should provide driver code to Toshiba and it can then be fixed in a flash. I have a e740 and love it so much. The Xscale is a nice chip and will indeed improve in peformance as it's flashed up, but in my book, the other features are worth more. The wireless works well, the dual slots are a godsend (WE DON'T NEED NO STEEEKIN SLED!;) ) and the price is GREAT for what you get. All in all, I would buy another one or an updated one (like the Toshiba e550 coming out soon!). One thing I am looking for is the availability of the 3000 mah high cap battery. The standard is fine for day to day use, but when you use the wireless alot you hear a giant sukcing sound coming from the battery. The other accesory I would look for is the 99 buck adapter that goes on the bottom. You add that and you can attach a USB keyboard and also drive a SVGA monitor or a Projector with it and have your handheld run your Power Point stuff on the road.
Hmm...seems to me that there has to be some hospital out there that has done this before. I did a google search and turned up a few, but no exact details like how the powered the laptop. The slice battery proposed by some looks promising in this regard. Of course I think hand helds could work as well, depending on the system. If it's html or xml based (or can be made that way) then a handheld could work, although the wireless card has a tendency to munch on batteries. Make sure you have docks available at the nurses station and after one does there rounds, they could plunk them into the cradles. Of course this all depends on what they are being used for. If this is to view images of any sort, then they had better be small. I could not imagine looking at a xray on a pda. The resolution sucks as well as the size of the LCD. One hospital I saw used a Thinkpad pad based laptop in every room. It just folded out of the wall and the doctor or nurse could use the pad to order up supplies be it drugs or whatever. It seems to me a laptop would not perform as you want unless you have some sort of way to give them extra power. A car battery would be out. It surprises me how much WiFi is used in hospitals. It's used all of the time. Our childrens hospital where my son has went for some things had a cart for patients/parents to use to play games or surf the net. It ran off of 802.11 and you could see the antenna in the hall hanging from the ceiling. Neatest idea I have ever seen. This was a full sized desktop. Maybe the use of WiFi in hospitals is why they don't want you to use cell phones in the wards!;)
Mod the parent up.....score +5 Funny. I was the first to find this thing on our servers and I understand why we got.....Microsoft getting it is TOO funny!
What if a user burns CD's as part of their job?? You don't want 650-800 MB images streaming over the network when you are in a smallish office. Restricting writing to the local hard disk is more trouble then it's worth. If you need to go to THAT extreme, then for the users that don't need a full PC, use Citrix winframe if your stuck with windows, or remote Xsessions in Linux. Problem solved.
And then, you'd be capped at 10 MB a month and slower service for the same price. Not exactly what I would call a good deal. Wirless (non 802.11b) is MUCH more expensive then Cable Modems. At least the cap is rather high.
Hmm....let's try this theory on. What if Epson and HP started dropping Mac support? You know it makes sense for Apple to do what they are doing with the iPod, but if Mac users expect to have printers and scanners, then Apple should cough up a PC version of iTunes. It's only fair right? Mac users expect Epson and other PC companies to support Mac....Apple should support PC as well.
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What union? We are non union and intend to stay that way. And if it really bothers us, we can get ear protection if we want. But if you have actually BEEN in a computer room, you'd realize it ain't that bad. I have been working in one for 5 years and I hear just about as good as I did before I started to work there. Maybe way back when the computers actually made more noise then current pc's do, well, then you'd have a case. Current PC's and servers don't make enough noise to be heard over the air conditioners and everything else going on. Handling tapes with ear protection? No way. Then I would never hear the console attention beep. I believe sight loss is actually worse then any hearing loss. We IT folks stare at CRT's way too much. LCD's will be a godsend!
Doesn't look like a Jog wheel to me. Looks more like a directional pad.
Pay for a pro to do it and you can't go wrong. You have no idea what future requirements might be, but they might. You see some servers like IBM's big Regatta p690 have to have raised floor and certain load ratings, heigth and other specs on that raised floor that have to be satisfied before IBM will support them.
IBM Global Services can do this and Bruns-Pak is a company who has their stuff together. They did a seminar I attended on Fault Tolerant centers...centers designed to withstand a category 5 hurricane with out power, water, and even food and sleeping quarters being supplied to the staffers during the whole event. Alot of companies forget that Operations Staff and Sysadmins need food while taking care of an emergency especially one that lasts for several days.
They can build you a center that costs 1 dollar per square foot (no raised floor, basically a room) or X amount (too high) with all of the robustness of NORAD's Crystal Palace. It all depends on what you want/need.
If I were to plan one for our location, I would build a one floor facility with no windows, chiller's in a protected area (inside the building, not on the roof), generators in a protected area, UPS, nice and high raised floor, possibly a tall ceiling (I hear that the new standard ceiling height is 40 feet....for taller racks), the building should be hardened against the weather in your area.....meaning it should be very tough in Ohio so it could withstand a Tornado. Ohio doesn't get very many cat 5 hurricanes so we don't have to go that far. Also, have a operations center so your operators don't have to be in the room. This saves sanity for mthe rush of the AC/units. Have a BATHROOM not far from the center....preferably connected to it. You could make it a locker room so that if you have a multi day emergency, you could shower. Have food (at least vending machines or maybe an emergency box of food with food that can stand to sit on a shelf for a while (MRE's would work). Also, you need a coffee pot (GREAT for LONG NIGHTS!). Also, get cable trays for managing the cat5, cat6 or fiber. They are for more then making things neet, they also protect the cable from and errant floor tile landing on a fiber and crushing it, or from cutting a patch cable. That's just the things I could think of. The pro's will not forget anything. It's what they do. Don't just pay those pro's to implement YOUR design....have them do the design with you. It's not the big thing's you will miss when doing a computer room. It's the little things that turn out to be big things too that you miss. This is why I say GET A PRO!
New units are much more quite then the older units. I have a printer that's louder. We're a state institution and we have a staffed computer room 24/7 almost. Since we are state, we KNOW about OSHA and they have yet to say anything. A well designed center can mitigate things like chiller sounds and the like.
You said: need to know how to handle your girlfriend, ask Ann Landers.
Yeah but she's dead! Died last week.
Give CmdrTaco and crew a break. Besides, if there really was something interesting happening (there was, it got rejected from several submittors.....Gene Kan of Gnutella fame committed suicide) they still might post this stuff and the good stuff if they feel nice.
No I have a BEFW11S4 V.2. I can't have it build a list of the MAC adress's that come in via wireless, but I can restrict the network to only those MAC adress's that are using it or any MAC I know will use it.(only my laptop and PDA) Nothing about that is automatic...you have to type them in. So only 2 devices can use my AP. I also restrict things some by setting the number of people allowed to get a DHCP address too I usually only issue 3 adress's, but currently 4 because of some idiot problem I had...I can probably fix it with time, but lately my RR has had problems staying up, so I have not had the time. A tech is on the way tomorrow to check things out cable modem wise, although today it's been up all day. Strange. Maybe they found their problem. I didn't get the WAP11 cuz I wanted/needed the switch and NAT stuff. My next purchase wireless wise may be one of the Linksys wireless print servers so I can get some space on my desk, although that may not work as I use the card slots on my printer constantly. I would not mind having one though! ;) You may want to check the Linksys website and see if the have any updates, but May sounds like a recent flash (mine also came out in May). I love the fact that they are adding features with flash as I don't find many bugs unless you count the router rebooting when the Cable modem is down and trying to communicate with the provider...when it's down for a extended period I usually yank the power or wan cable for the cable modem.
Just like I told my wife....NEVER TELL TW Service ANYTHING! I have a simple setup. Cable Modem to Linksys Wireless AP/Switch, Cable from desktop hooked to the Linksys, and wireless for both Laptop and PDA. I tell her if they ever ask about more then one computer, tell them we only have one. If they ever ask about a router or something like that, tell them you don't know or we don't have it. Our AUP does not forbade it, but they don't support it and telling them something like this will get service to hang up on you quicker then a web page download on roadrunner. I have a mental list when I KNOW it's their problem, but I want them to investigate. Basically, to get past Tier 1 support, I bluff my way and tell them I already did that. If they tell me to do it again, I ask for a manager. That usually gets me to Tier 2 support where they finally realize it's their problem, not mine. Lately, I have actually gotten good help from the phone techs. I tell them everything I tried (some of I did some of I didn't cuz I knew it would not help) and they moved it up to tier 2 then tier 3. Now I have a guy coming to look at the modem. My bet is they'll swap modems out. In any case, NEVER tell Road Runner support anything. As far as I am concerned, how many PC's I have is not their damn business especially if I am not coming anywhere near any cap.
This is what I do. Personally, I think freeloaders suck. Leechs would kill BBS's back in the day. That's why one friend of mine who ran a bbs kept acess to the the good stuff closed to all but those with higher access (his friends).
Those who are willing to be WALKED ALL OVER by freeloaders are those who advocate a free internet and free wireless. They want to give access to the internet to people who care less about it and more about getting food! But since they don't charge anyone, then the one's who CAN afford it figure oh I will just leech off of my neighbor's open connection. And then they tell their neihbor and so on and so on and then that Cable Modem's connection is saturated 24/7 and they wonder why the cable company did what they did. SHEESH!
I don't share my wireless network with anyone. I have it on my laptop and my pda (The awesome despite some performance issues e740) and I have my AP set up thanks to Linksys's update to only allow those two to connect via WEP and MAC address. So if they tried to connect to it, they will see it, but they will also not be able to connect. That is unless the Cable Guy is a hacker too, which I doubt (what hacker would want to do that job!). Besides, don't those freaks who share it know that they risk their own systems by running it unencrypted and unrestricted?? Also, they lose the ability to do cool stuff like acess your desktop data amd hardware from PDA or Laptop(if they turn on sharing, anyone can see their stuff...stupid move). They also can't share printers like I do with my laptop! ;)
You actually buy your groceries online? Heh heh. Actually, I like Discover Card over Visa for online purchases. Discover has an app for your machine (windows only unfortunately) that let's you generate a one time use number for every purchase on the net hopefuly preventing unauthorized charges by the script kiddies. I will never use my Visa online with or without passport...it's too risky. Brings to memory the Gatekeeper software thing in the movie The Net. Now I need to go to the bathroom cuz I just got that image of Sandra Bullock in a bikini....rarrr rarrr!
The World is so small now. In less then a day I can be on the other side of the world. Would it not be so much easier if we all kept time by following UTC? I flew to Dallas a couple weeks ago. They are one hour behind EDT. I told my friends I was kind of time traveling. Because of the change from one timezone to another, if you looked at my departure and arrival times you'd think it was a 2 hour flight even though it took about 3 hours. Granted, the only people who would feel normal are the folks in the UK. When the sun would rise here in the Eastern Time Zone, it would already be 10 am by UTC. It would feel too weird to alot of people.
Yes in Star Trek 6 so you are correct!
THANK YOU! Exactly my point. I do believe it SHOULD be better, but there are SO many new things in the Toshiba e740 that it just was not possible to get everything right software wise. The Xscale, the imageon, the integrated wireless all make for one really really small and very complex device. The firmware is BOUND to have problems. This much should be a given. All things said, I have yet to see the people's problems with things like wireless (been pretty flwaless here), and video. There are annoying things like the buttons taking a vacation after using the wireless sometimes, a weird block in the messenger program command bar, weirdness with the notes app when storing notes on the SD card instead of memory, the ANNOYING "feature" of enabling the radio when doing a soft reset (I WANT TO LEAVE IT OFF IF IT WAS OFF DAMMIT!) and others. I have only had it for a week so it's hard to say if that's all the bugs, but those are the ones I notice. Personally, for a desktop, I would rather have a 450 MHz SPARC or RS/6000 instead of what I have. At least both Sun and IBM run more QA stuff then the PC manufacturers do! That 450 Mhz risc machine would run rings around any PC I could get (with exception of a Itanium, properly configured...). RISC machines are proof that doubling MHz will not necessarily double performance.
For what you want, you'd be MUCH better off with a SAN and some sort of silo. DVD's have a tendency to grow feet. Security wise, I'd never do a DVD jukebox. It's too easy for stuff to go bye bye. The san can be backed up by a IBM silo running Tivoli or a StorageTek unit or something similar. For those who say that tape technology has not kept up, you can tell they are PC centric and never look beyond it. I have Magstar tapes that are 7 gigs uncompressed and a library that holds tons of them (around 100-200 at least...if not more). Also, I would rather not have 2 TB tapes. Too easy for you to loose something if it's only on one tape (of course you could backup multiple times, but your goig to do that anyway right?). The nice thing about the IBM/Tivoli units is when you run out of space, you can just get another silo, and more SAN. Your existing Tivoli server can still be used to back things up. Some say well, tapes have legs too....yeah, but it's MUCH harder for someone to swipe one if the door's locked and it's in a card accessed data center. I know the DVD jukes could be locked too, but it's much more tempting to try to steal something more commonly available. How easy is it to find a Magstar tape drive that a home user/hacker could afford?? DVD Juke's are not that great of a idea. I can't guarantee reliablity or data retrieval on a DVD. On a SAN I more readily can do this(and the SAN would be much faster to boot!). And if the data doesn't change, you can always have the users mount the drives in a read only status. Then they can't over write the files.
For a category that has NEW silicon running it! Driver problems can create lots of issues. The imageon 100 graphics processor they are using in the Toshiba is brand new. My point is are we expecting too much out of a device that oculd have been rushed? I mean how fast do you need your contact list to come up?? As long as it plays MP3's fine, it works good for me. Also, this is nothing like a x86 chip. I t has all kinds of optimizations for power concerns and is also a RISC processor I believe. It's too soon to create any verdict on the Xscale. There's only ONE model out now (in the US....Japan has the really cool new Genio model that won't be here for a while). Also, HP iPaqs are due out soon as well. Palm is also going to Xscale too. The Xscale is a god processor, it's just too soon to issue sucks/doesn't suck verdict on it right now. Personaly, I like my e740 very much and owuld NEVER step DOWN to an iPaq. Besides I hate them sleds anyway (why can't they include a CF sled instead of the usless basic sled).
Terrible? It beats the iPaq in every area except for memory moves, and graphics. Memory moves are not that much slower either. Are we quibbling about mere microseconds?? I believe the problem could be the OS but may be more likely to be with the ATI chip. Rumor has it the driver has not truely been released yet.
This complaint was also based on the FIRST Xscale pda to EVER be released. Sure there's GOING to be problems. The iPaq started off with similar issues, but you don't hear anyone talking about it now do ya? There's alot of reasons that add up to create the total performance picture. Maybe Toshiba used cheaper internal ram? Maybe they need more memory for video (I think it has like 256 K maybe?? I don't know but I know it has dedicated video ram). The point is the performance on ONE Xscale based PocketPC does not make a prediction on how the others will perform. Also as these are flashable, we can expect even the Toshiba to get better performance as flash updates are made available.
Screw you man! I don't want them any bigger. Sure a nice big screen would be nice, but in something that's supposed to fit in your pocket, then the current specs work. The only way I would want a bigger screen would be if it was virtual (project on your wall, eye, whatever....). Now I WOULD like a 15 inch wireless web pad for at home. But I guess that'll wait for the mira. Also, that clie with twice the real estate is a heck of a lot bigger too. I like the 240x320, although I would not mind more pixels per inch. That would make things much sharper and clearer.
Well I found it and the performance is NOT 50-75 percent slower then an iPaq. From the numbers on pocketnow.com, the Toshiba e740 is actually ahead in most categories with exception of graphics. There's the real kicker. I don't think it's the Xscale so much as it's the ATI imageon graphics chip in it. This is also a new chip, and as the benchmarks prove, it's driver has a problem or so it would seem. I actually heard that it's kind of operating in a emulation mode of sorts (kind of like standard SVGA on a desktop). ATI should provide driver code to Toshiba and it can then be fixed in a flash. I have a e740 and love it so much. The Xscale is a nice chip and will indeed improve in peformance as it's flashed up, but in my book, the other features are worth more. The wireless works well, the dual slots are a godsend (WE DON'T NEED NO STEEEKIN SLED! ;) ) and the price is GREAT for what you get. All in all, I would buy another one or an updated one (like the Toshiba e550 coming out soon!). One thing I am looking for is the availability of the 3000 mah high cap battery. The standard is fine for day to day use, but when you use the wireless alot you hear a giant sukcing sound coming from the battery. The other accesory I would look for is the 99 buck adapter that goes on the bottom. You add that and you can attach a USB keyboard and also drive a SVGA monitor or a Projector with it and have your handheld run your Power Point stuff on the road.
Still possible! AIX runs on Itanium as of 5L. Of course Itanium won't be on a laptop anytime soon.
Hmm...seems to me that there has to be some hospital out there that has done this before. I did a google search and turned up a few, but no exact details like how the powered the laptop. The slice battery proposed by some looks promising in this regard. Of course I think hand helds could work as well, depending on the system. If it's html or xml based (or can be made that way) then a handheld could work, although the wireless card has a tendency to munch on batteries. Make sure you have docks available at the nurses station and after one does there rounds, they could plunk them into the cradles. Of course this all depends on what they are being used for. If this is to view images of any sort, then they had better be small. I could not imagine looking at a xray on a pda. The resolution sucks as well as the size of the LCD. One hospital I saw used a Thinkpad pad based laptop in every room. It just folded out of the wall and the doctor or nurse could use the pad to order up supplies be it drugs or whatever. It seems to me a laptop would not perform as you want unless you have some sort of way to give them extra power. A car battery would be out. It surprises me how much WiFi is used in hospitals. It's used all of the time. Our childrens hospital where my son has went for some things had a cart for patients/parents to use to play games or surf the net. It ran off of 802.11 and you could see the antenna in the hall hanging from the ceiling. Neatest idea I have ever seen. This was a full sized desktop. Maybe the use of WiFi in hospitals is why they don't want you to use cell phones in the wards! ;)
Mod the parent up.....score +5 Funny. I was the first to find this thing on our servers and I understand why we got.....Microsoft getting it is TOO funny!
What if a user burns CD's as part of their job?? You don't want 650-800 MB images streaming over the network when you are in a smallish office. Restricting writing to the local hard disk is more trouble then it's worth. If you need to go to THAT extreme, then for the users that don't need a full PC, use Citrix winframe if your stuck with windows, or remote Xsessions in Linux. Problem solved.
And then, you'd be capped at 10 MB a month and slower service for the same price. Not exactly what I would call a good deal. Wirless (non 802.11b) is MUCH more expensive then Cable Modems. At least the cap is rather high.
Hmm....let's try this theory on. What if Epson and HP started dropping Mac support? You know it makes sense for Apple to do what they are doing with the iPod, but if Mac users expect to have printers and scanners, then Apple should cough up a PC version of iTunes. It's only fair right? Mac users expect Epson and other PC companies to support Mac....Apple should support PC as well.